Simulations of arctic mixed-phase clouds in forecasts with CAM3 and AM2 for M-PACE
Abstract
[1] Simulations of mixed-phase clouds in forecasts with the NCAR Atmosphere Model version 3 (CAM3) and the GFDL Atmospheric Model version 2 (AM2) for the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE) are performed using analysis data from numerical weather prediction centers. CAM3 significantly underestimates the observed boundary layer mixed-phase cloud fraction and cannot realistically simulate the variations of liquid water fraction with temperature and cloud height due to its oversimplified cloud microphysical scheme. In contrast, AM2 reasonably reproduces the observed boundary layer cloud fraction while its clouds contain much less cloud condensate than CAM3 and the observations. The simulation of the boundary layer mixed-phase clouds and their microphysical properties is considerably improved in CAM3 when a new physically based cloud microphysical scheme is used (CAM3LIU). The new scheme also leads to an improved simulation of the surface and top of the atmosphere longwave radiative fluxes. Sensitivity tests show that these results are not sensitive to the analysis data used for model initialization. Increasing model horizontal resolution helps capture the subgrid-scale features in Arctic frontal clouds but does not help improve the simulation of the single-layer boundary layer clouds. AM2 simulated cloud fraction and LWP are sensitive to the change in cloudmore »
- Authors:
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1281698
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JRNL-233107
Journal ID: ISSN 0148-0227; JGREA2
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Geophysical Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 113; Journal Issue: D4; Journal ID: ISSN 0148-0227
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Citation Formats
Xie, Shaocheng, Boyle, James, Klein, Stephen A., Liu, Xiaohong, and Ghan, Steven. Simulations of arctic mixed-phase clouds in forecasts with CAM3 and AM2 for M-PACE. United States: N. p., 2008.
Web. doi:10.1029/2007JD009225.
Xie, Shaocheng, Boyle, James, Klein, Stephen A., Liu, Xiaohong, & Ghan, Steven. Simulations of arctic mixed-phase clouds in forecasts with CAM3 and AM2 for M-PACE. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JD009225
Xie, Shaocheng, Boyle, James, Klein, Stephen A., Liu, Xiaohong, and Ghan, Steven. Wed .
"Simulations of arctic mixed-phase clouds in forecasts with CAM3 and AM2 for M-PACE". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JD009225. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1281698.
@article{osti_1281698,
title = {Simulations of arctic mixed-phase clouds in forecasts with CAM3 and AM2 for M-PACE},
author = {Xie, Shaocheng and Boyle, James and Klein, Stephen A. and Liu, Xiaohong and Ghan, Steven},
abstractNote = {[1] Simulations of mixed-phase clouds in forecasts with the NCAR Atmosphere Model version 3 (CAM3) and the GFDL Atmospheric Model version 2 (AM2) for the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE) are performed using analysis data from numerical weather prediction centers. CAM3 significantly underestimates the observed boundary layer mixed-phase cloud fraction and cannot realistically simulate the variations of liquid water fraction with temperature and cloud height due to its oversimplified cloud microphysical scheme. In contrast, AM2 reasonably reproduces the observed boundary layer cloud fraction while its clouds contain much less cloud condensate than CAM3 and the observations. The simulation of the boundary layer mixed-phase clouds and their microphysical properties is considerably improved in CAM3 when a new physically based cloud microphysical scheme is used (CAM3LIU). The new scheme also leads to an improved simulation of the surface and top of the atmosphere longwave radiative fluxes. Sensitivity tests show that these results are not sensitive to the analysis data used for model initialization. Increasing model horizontal resolution helps capture the subgrid-scale features in Arctic frontal clouds but does not help improve the simulation of the single-layer boundary layer clouds. AM2 simulated cloud fraction and LWP are sensitive to the change in cloud ice number concentrations used in the Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen process while CAM3LIU only shows moderate sensitivity in its cloud fields to this change. Furthermore, this paper shows that the Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen process is important for these models to correctly simulate the observed features of mixed-phase clouds.},
doi = {10.1029/2007JD009225},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research},
number = D4,
volume = 113,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2008},
month = {Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2008}
}
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